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Due to a planned maintenance, some data products on this site will not be available from Tuesday 22nd of November (starting at 8:00CET), until Thursday 24th of November.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

All front and back ends are now upgraded. Backends are running in a mix of virtual machines, containers and in a HPC system. The data portal software is also upgraded and some changes are found in the interfaces for search and results tabulation. Automatic visualisation of datasets supported through OGC WMS and OPeNDAP (requires data as CF-NetCDF according to a profile of the discrete sampling geometries specification of CF) has also been updated. Further refinement of this setup as well as development of improved documentation is in progress.

The information extracted from WMO GTS on synoptic weather stations are now working again. There has been a dropout of services. This information will be further improved with direct download of individual years.

On Sunday August 15th, a scheduled maintenance will take place between 18 and 21 CET. During this time the site will not be available. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Due to the upgrade of both front and backends some datasets are missing from the catalogue. This will be corrected after the summer break.

We are currently experiencing some troubles with exposing products after the maintenance work. We are working on it to restore full functionalities as soon as possible.

UPDATE:

The problems are fixed and the system works as normal.

The search interface has been updated. It now supports global maps and is more consistent in appearance. Yet another upgrade is planned before the new year.

A file conformance checker for NetCDF files following the Climate and Forecast convention and the Attribute Convention for Data Discovery is available in the GCW Data Portal. The first convention ensures that data are supported by sufficient use metadata (standardised variable descriptions, units, missing values etc) to properly understand the data.

This site is under transfer into operations today.

The software running the catalogue integration in the test portal has been upgraded. This upgrade brings the ability to work with parent/children relationships for datasets as well as to define collections withn the system. The content in the portal is still test data that are not necessarily GCW relevant. This will be changed once this portal moves from test to operations.